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The General Board of the North Carolina Baptist State Convention Tuesday voted 101-9 to approve Wake Forest University's proposal to separate itself from the convention. chances before the whole convention are good. "There seems to be general approval for the proposal within the Baptist community," he said. According to Brantley, freedom to choose its own trustees would benefit Wake Forest's re...

This article, adapted from the 1990 Annual Report of the Medicare Board of Trustees, presents a summary of the current and projected financial and actuarial status of the Hospital Insurance (HI) Trust Fund. The Board reports that the present financing schedule for the HI program is sufficient to ensure the payment of benefits over the next 13-15 years if the intermediate (II-A and II-B) assumpt...

Although hospital governing boards can have a significant influence over setting priorities and stretch goals and can emphasize an agenda for improving quality and safety, relatively little is known about trustees’ actual level of engagement in quality-related issues. A survey of 1,000 board chairs revealed that less than half of the boards rated quality of care as a top priority, a minority of...

Conflicts of interest (COIs) have been defined by the American Thoracic Society as "a divergence between an individual's private interests and his or her professional obligations such that an independent observer might reasonably question whether the individual's professional actions or decisions are motivated by personal gain, such as direct financial, academic advancement, clinical revenue st...

Too often, the board of a nonprofit organization is little more than a collection of high-powered people engaged in low-level activities. But that can change, the authors say, if trustees are willing to discover and take on the new work of the board. When they perform the new work, a board's members can significantly advance the institution's mission and long-term welfare. Doing the new work re...

This article summarizes the current financial condition and actuarial status of the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program, as shown in the 1987 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees. The Trustees note that the assets of the OASI and DI Trust Funds, on a combined basis, will be sufficient to permit the timely payment of OASDI benefits for many years into the future, on th...